Flozzin

I never interpreted her saying focus only on yourself and maximize your own happy. But rather know yourself. To me there is a big differences in understanding who you are vs only doing what you want at any expense.

This is too simple, but knowing I want a piece of cake does not mean I should or will eat one.

She is railing against the types of people that are so goal driven to a point where it becomes an obsession. She seems to think that over doing(which is what that is) stems from a poor understanding of who you are, and/or surpassing your own needs. For instance opening a local store. It's successful, makes enough money, but instead of being happy(your needs are met) you open a chain, take over the state, then the country and so on. Or the empty nester that now has no children to focus on has nothing to do, no skills to do anything, and no idea what they actually like to do. Since their entire world was built around someone else.

Also, never let the worst of a group define that group. If they are the worst they probably aren't following the actual ideology.(clearly this thinking fails with Nazi's or other extremists)

While at some times she seems to be rambling or making no sense(she over uses the words doing, everything), her point rings true to me. You need idle time to understand yourself.

I have seen other sources say that kids need downtime. To just use their imagination. Constantly having your eyes glued to TV or your phone does not make a healthy person.

She also mentions that people make the mistake of 'over-doing'. Which I also agree with.

While I feel like she could have made her case clearer and cleaner(although she was writing to a child so maybe this is perfect), I agree with her.

I had the same thought. There is no reason a phone should cause you this much anxiety. He was powerless to act. He could have done a number of things, but instead he walked towards the tormentor and took it in full force. This is not the behavior of a healthy person.

If you are wealthy and have a lot of holdings, create an offshore company and move all your wealth to it, then just get a company credit card. All your wealth and possessions is now owned by that company...

Spit balling here, but I'm not sure a wealth tax will fix it.